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[kubrick]

Martha Marcy May Marlene 2011

Martha Marcy May Marlene was a film which I expected to be something and was completely something else. Take a look at the poster and read the title a couple of times mindlessly and have a vision about the film. I am pretty sure it wont be the one of the actual film. This is one of those rare films which seems to be better if you go in without watching the trailer.

The film is just about the paranoia of a young girl, Martha, who has exposed herself to a wild cult which does very weird things which she isn't expecting, she is a naive girl indeed. The film starts with her escaping from the cult and finding her sister who is married and living in a huge lake side house.

This is as much a thriller as a psychological study it is. The flashbacks to the happenings in the cult keep revealing the motives of her current actions and vice versa. And when we find what causes Martha's breakdown it is reasonable but what is more stinging is how much it has affected her.

This is an insightful film which makes us understand how good and simple a girl Martha used to be before the cult without showing it at all.

We constantly keep moving towards the reactions of Martha all through the movie getting closer and closer to what she feels as time goes by which shows how strong the way the story is being narrated.

This is top notch directing which couldn't have been possible without such acute cinematography which shows the green around the locales with such depth. That green all over the film is something what Martha Marcy May Marlene probably wanted after all.

This is a powerful film with a powerhouse of a performance from Elizabeth Olsen and the actor who plays her sister too. But Olsen is the one who steals it by encapsulating all of Martha's lost naivety which has plunged her into the void of paranoia which she might never come out of unless she ignores it completely.